8VC

Signals

• Joe Lonsdale Managing Partner
• Ian Shannon General Counsel
• Stephen Condon Chief Financial Officer
• Asanka Jayasuriya CTO
• Nick Dolik Partner
• Mitch Parker Executive in Residence
• Zachary White Venture Partner
• Kunal B. Entrepreneur in Residence
• Christopher Beach Media & Communications
• Pedro Robinson Advisor
• Bela Becerra Principal
• Jeremy Avin Advisor

+ 28 more tracked

Recent changes

• 2 Oct ▼ Yair Abramoff left (was Investor)
• 2 Oct ▼ John Bertrand left (was Various: Senior Advisor, Executive In Residence)
• 2 Oct ▲ Michael Mclary joined as Advisor
• 2 Oct ▲ Vlad Novakovski joined as Advisor

Portfolio

Cognition Generalist XDOF Gallatin AI Inc. Generalist AI Inc.

Latest developments

Q4 2026

◆ 8VC invests in Gallatin AI Inc. Funding

• 9 Oct Gallatin AI raises $50M in funding for its military logistics platform

Q3 2026

◆ 8VC invests in XDOF Funding

◆ Robotics startup Generalist raises an additional ~$200 million led by 8VC, pushing its valuation to about $3 billion Funding

◆ Wispr raises $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation and previews a new speech-understanding model to improve dictation accuracy Funding

• 4 Sep XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
• 26 Aug Ex-DeepMind founders’ robotics startup Generalist hits $3B valuation with $200M funding
• 26 Aug Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
• 25 Aug Robotics AI startup Generalist reportedly raises $200M
• 17 Aug Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI

Relationships

Investment & ownership

• Invests in Generalist · 2 sources
• Invests in XDOF · 1 source
• Invests in Cognition · 1 source
• Invests in Generalist AI Inc. · 1 source
• Invests in Gallatin AI Inc. · 1 source